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HYPERTENSION
Volume 67, Issue 6, Pages 1211-1217Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.115.06604
Keywords
accessory renal artery; blood pressure; denervation; hypertension; hypertension resistant to conventional therapy; renal artery; renal nerve stimulation
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- St. Jude Medical (Saint Paul, MN, USA)
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Blood pressure response to renal denervation is highly variable, and the proportion of responders is disappointing. This may be partly because of accessory renal arteries too small for denervation, causing incomplete ablation. Renal nerve stimulation before and after renal denervation is a promising approach to assess completeness of renal denervation and may predict blood pressure response to renal denervation. The objective of the current study was to assess renal nerve stimulation-induced blood pressure increase before and after renal sympathetic denervation in main and accessory renal arteries of anaesthetized patients with drug-resistant hypertension. The study included 21 patients. Nine patients had at least 1 accessory renal artery in which renal denervation was not feasible. Renal nerve stimulation was performed in the main arteries of all patients and in accessory renal arteries of 6 of 9 patients with accessory arteries, both before and after renal sympathetic denervation. Renal nerve stimulation before renal denervation elicited a substantial increase in systolic blood pressure, both in main (25.6 +/- 2.9 mm Hg; P<0.001) and accessory (24.3 +/- 7.4 mm Hg; P=0.047) renal arteries. After renal denervation, renal nerve stimulation-induced systolic blood pressure increase was blunted in the main renal arteries (Delta systolic blood pressure, 8.6 +/- 3.7 mm Hg; P=0.020), but not in the nondenervated renal accessory renal arteries (Delta systolic blood pressure, 27.1 +/- 7.6 mm Hg; P=0.917). This residual source of renal sympathetic tone may result in persistent hypertension after ablation and partly account for the large response variability.
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